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Foreword

This proposal is a follow-up and replacement for the naming rules rejected by FPC on 2009-01-06. It is more invasive and will require more changes, but should produce more pleasant font package names.

Renaming of existing packages that fail this new rule will wait for the corresponding policy to be finalised, or for a specific FPC exception.

The change consists of the addition one section to our current font policy that should be referenced in Packaging/NamingGuidelines (alternatively it could be transcluded in both pages).

What is a font family?

A font family corresponds to one entry in GUI font lists. For example, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono are three different font families.

A font family is subdivided in faces or styles. DejaVu Sans Normal, DejaVu Sans Bold, DejaVu Sans Condensed Italic are three faces of the DejaVu Sans font family.

A font-metadata aware tool such as gnome-font-viewer[1] or fontforge[2] can be used to check the font family name and the font face/style declared by a font file.

Naming

Fedora font packages are named [foundryname-]projectname[-fontfamilyname]-fonts, in lowercase.

Clarifications

For Fedora purposes a “foundry” is an entity that publishes a set of fonts with consistent font QA rules. Thus a generic hosting service such as Sourceforge is not a foundry, but the Open Font Library is.

It is good practice to contract foundryname- in a short prefix.

The foundryname- prefix can optionally be skipped:

for entities that never released more than one font family, or

when the font project and the publishing entity are one and the same.

If projectname or foundryname are repeated in fontfamilyname, they can be dropped from fontfamilyname.

When foundryname, projectname or fontfamilyname contain the font or fonts affix, this affix should be dropped from them[3].

-fontfamilyname should not be included in the srpm name of a package that includes several different font families.

If any element of the naming contains spaces, they should be replaced by “-”.

The use of the -fonts suffix is not dependant on the actual number of font files in the package.